GGR241H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Classical Order, Architecture Of India, Edwin Lutyens
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Structure: the planned imperial city in the colonies, building new delhi, social distinctions inscribed in the landscape. Planned imperial city references roman and the imperial city as everlasting. Delhi has to demonstrate social morality and control through the culture. (delhi town planning committee, 1913) Indians adults are children so indian architecture is created by children (h. baker to e. lutyens, 1912) (e. luytens) Knowledge is power and colonial powers controlled knowledge: contained and represented by dominating frameworks (e. said) Oriental = othered: had to be taken care by dominant culture. Imperial city: discursive-material world expressed in built form. Control over spatial relations-structure, social relations-hierarchies, allocation of planned space: hierarchies: race, class, gender. Significance of buildings: cities as texts: communicative devices that encode and transmit information, ordered assembling of objects that communicate structure for power relations, new delhi is a concrete manifestation of colonial power relations. New delhi built on top of agricultural land and villages.
